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The new envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, said on Tuesday that he plans to launch a comprehensive political process that would start from where UN-brokered negotiations led by his Mauritanian predecessor Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmad had stopped.
Griffiths kicked off his mission to broker a UN peace deal in Yemen, from the Saudi capital, Riyadh, by meeting former President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and members of his resigned regime.
The British diplomat was appointed as the new UN envoy to Yemen in February, replacing Sheikh Ahmad, who failed to break the Yemeni political stalemate and end the conflict.
“A political process will require all sides to be flexible, make difficult compromises, and prioritize the national interest for the sake of the Yemeni people,” the envoy said.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by Website Team
